The Passive Vampire

Irene Gammel

The Passive Vampire (Art Lit)

by Gherasim Luca

translation by Krzysztof Fijalkowski

Twisted Spoon Press

$14.24 List Price

What secret was trying to pierce through this hallucinatory and hermetic language?” asks poet Ghérasim Luca in his long-lost classic The Passive Vampire. The book, first published in French in 1945 by Les Éditions de l’Oubli in Bucharest, is chimerical and delirious yet remarkably concrete in its lewdness. Blending personal confession, prose poetry, meditation, verbal games, catalogues, and hymns to desire, this hybrid

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